laobali

Sorry, my comment got embedded in your post. Tablet issues.

To keep you updated on the situation, I passed the Scottish link to her, and I wrote a letter for her to attach.

Also wrote a letter in English, for her to send to the dating website.

My wife gave her both, on Monday, and she is refusing to do anything.

Can't understand why she asked my wife's help in the first place.

Anyway, I would like to Thank everybody for your time to answer my thread.

Probably too much loss of face already.

Regards

Costas

It's not just Thai women it happens to there was a news feature on recently in the UK where women all over Europe had fell for similar scams. They meet a guy on a dating site, he says he's from the UK or USA, and they talk on the phone and email each other.

Eventually after some time he asks for money for whatever reason and tons of these women send him large sums of it only never to hear from him again.

Turns out he's actually Nigerian and just scamming them.

Although they are still called Nigerian 419 scams from their origin 30 years ago, the perpetrators now come from all over the world.

Some women had fallen for the same scam over and over again with different people. Some had sent money multiple times even after sending the first one and the guy not keeping his end of the bargain.

They talked to some of the women afterwards and they even said "I knew his accent wasn't American and his photos didn't look like he was in the USA" and other stuff that made it really obvious it was a scam yet they still fell for it anyway.

Whist i admit this is the behaviour,of an utter cad,maybe in the past he has been scammed the other way and wanted a measure of revenge ,i do not condone action's of con artist's,but i would suggest it has been done far more by Thai lady's to falang's than the other way around,if i were you Costas my involvement would be to let the website know,and leave it at that,there is no use crying over spilt milk,any the lady has learned a lesson,anyway who on Earth would want to live in Glasgow.

Possibly at least one Nigerian scammer by the sound of it!

Would an implant improve the road tragedy situation.

No, but it might improve your outlook. That's a forced smile if ever I saw one!

Thailand has laws like most countries. They're just not enforced sufficiently. That's what needs to change, but a lot of people will be unhappy about it, including foreigners. You can't just pick and choose which rules you like.

Well done all those whose efforts have finally got this mess under international scrutiny. Let's hope for justice at least once.

The difference is that far more offenders are caught and punished appropriately. Unlike Thailand. Not disrespect but fact.

OH THANK YOU FOR THE TIP / SENIOR OFFICIAL /

My first thought in your position should be to expose that or those Government official (Sad to say though your tip might not be cash rewarded or a promotion) thats the duty of every honest citizen to stop such fowl business. Well. I hope that the Military would hear or see your report. Good luck and well done!

Too chicken to report the fowl business since the coop?

I have a few suggestions.

Drive fast.

Drive drunk.

Drive on the wrong side of the road.

Don't wear a seatbelt.

All of these will improve tragedy.

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You mean do the same as many Thais? If you can't beat them, join them. Sometimes it will work in your favour but don't bank on it. Everyone has a "not lucky" day.

Yes, that is one of the most biased reports I've seen about America. In my mind I pictured the journalist at a party with other American bashing revelers raising their glasses and celebrating Americas impending downfall.

Sounds like a student's thesis picked up as a slow news day page filler for a second rate rag.

Afraid ebola will spread as fire both here and in other developing countries considering the hygienic etiquette when it comes to sneezing, couching and something as simple but important as regularly handwash.

And eating food from the same dish with each person using their own spoon.

Have you ever drunk beer "Lao-style" with everyone using the same glass? Great fun!

And marketing online goes way beyond sourcing a product, selling, being paid and delivering it - even if it's someone else's product or service (affiliate marketing); that's the easy part. Online 'presence' is the secret. Getting your site or blog listed (or ad posted) on the first page of the search engines (SEO) is the difficult part. And choosing to promote something that a sizable number of people want. Takes a lot of effort and time.

Agree with above. Five years ago is very different from today earning extra income online, especially for someone starting now.

Maybe I'll set myself on fire in protest of the restrictive visas for husbands of Thai women.

Let us know how you make out, in the meantime, put another shrimp on the barbie.

While this is a burning issue, is it something a country's leader needs to get involved with? Put another red herring on the barbie.

Sheer farce! Everybody in the world, knows what it is famous for!

Pole vaulting!

the LONG JUMP would be popular.

Jumping through hoops would be popular with the expat community.

I wonder if she's considered an F1 circuit along Pattaya's streets à la Monte Carlo.

I know of several large academic conferences held in Pattaya. It seemed to be trying to establish itself as a conference venue.

The conferences I know were very successful, but some of the delegates got a bit of a shock wondering around after dinner!

Wondering why they chose Pattaya?

Probably because of the large number of golf courses nearby - and that is why they were successful.

Most people I know go to conferences to get away from work and have a good time and then claim it as a tax deduction.

You can play golf at night in Pattaya?

In a few years countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and even China will be far more developed and tourist friendly than they are now. And when that happens the "quality tourist" will collectively spit in the face of the brain dead, racist, arrogant Thais and maybe then these incomprehensibly stupid people will finally learn that the world does not revolve around them and that if they want their tourist revenue back, to rescue their pathetic country from the recession it will be in, then they will have to get on their knees and do you know what. And these morons will learn that not even China will be their friend. Who will they market to next...Africa, North Korea, ISIS? And if there is one country in the world that deserves and will receive no sympathy then it will be Thailand. I find thainess more obscene and disgusting by the day and each and every attempt of theirs to compel me to spend more money in their banana republic country just results in me spending less.

Wow, that's way over the top. Did she ditch you? Why are you still in TV?

it can be addictive, even once you've seen the (dimming) light.

In reference to back packers I seen them puking out if front of bars grabbing waitress's butts And picking up the local ladyboys.

And you know they're backpackers because they all wear them 24/7?

Did it occur to u bashers that pomrakkbkk maybe covering himself? This girl may tell him one thing & do another, or tell him it costs X amount wen in fact it costs v little. Duh, think outside the square guys

Thanks, someone who gets it..

Some of us got it too. "... Bank account for girlfriend" in the title gave it away. Run a mile.

Jeez, thanks to the two total nincompoops. It's a reasonable question and I'd love to know the answer too.

Then why not Google how to form a company/start a business/lose money in Thailand yourself?

This forum is really useless.

No, it's a pretty silly or naive question that got you some good answers and advice if you read between the lines.

I fear this could blow up into an international diplomatic incident

I fear that it might not......due to the UK losing focus on the issue.

Just a little more time and it will all go away. Watch and learn.

"We managed to arrest suspects swiftly even though it seemed impossible at the beginning," he said.

Looks like at least he was smart enough to not add the word THE before SUSPECTS, as that would have given his sentence a completely different meaning.

Did he actually make the statement in English or is this just typical (mis)translation?